Analog Four – The Best You Can Do!

I’ll be honest, I don’t really understand the difference between Science Lab and Mission Briefs.

However it works out, I really appreciate having:

  • A thread specifically for A4 lovers to gush without being limited to specific features (currently the “Isn’t the Analog Four the most…” thread)
  • A thread for A4-only music and sounds (currently this thread, I think?)
  • A series of challenges for the A4 to inspire creativity and promote discovery of all this box can do (doesn’t currently exist)

I’m in favor of anything that makes these possible (and am willing to help, if that’s needed)

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Thanks a lot for another perspective!
When I started this thread I had in mind to have it as something like a hybrid of an ongoing challenge to showcase anything and get the most out of A4. One of my main drivers was to get rid of redundancy and I imagined it to evolve gradually from aspect to aspect and leave room for any crazy idea that might come up over time. I know I didn’t do a great job setting this up, and I feel sorry for that.

Now: As much as I would love to see a whole series of A4 challenges, I am not entirely convinced there’s enough attention to keep it going. And my own time I spend in here right now is too limited to be able to run it.

[While Science Lab was originally set up for Elektron themselves to host challenges it was suggested by @LyingDalai to move to Mission Briefs – which is considered the more appropriate place]

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I think you’re doing great at it!

Makes sense. In that case, I’m in favor of moving this to Mission Briefs (to stop from stepping on official Elektron toes) and keep it loose and flowing from aspect to aspect, like you say. If we continue to have a steady stream of contributions in a month or two, maybe that will be our sign that more specific challenges can be supported?

But to be clear, I’m really enjoying this thread and wouldn’t change anything about it (other than the category, at the discretion of the mods).

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Cool, thanks again. That’s very encouraging.

Moderation acted very fast. – Thanks @LyingDalai!

I just updated the opening post a little to (hopefully) make the purpose/rules of this thread clear. If there’s a question left open: Ask! :slight_smile:

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Sorry for the cross-post, but I just realized this fit the brief pretty well. Two 303-like tracks on the A4 with macros assigned to their 303-ish parameters (cutoff, resonance, filter env amount, etc) to make it easy to tweak them in real time:

Everything else is A4, too, but much more boring :slight_smile:

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started as a drone and turned it into something.

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Very nice!

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Is this available for sale anywhere by chance?

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sounds great, is that all directly recorded from the A4? Fat sounding :+1:

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no, but you can listen to it for free on soundcloud. or request a download if you want to use it live.

Thanks! :slight_smile:
It’s mixed internally, recorded via USB from main outs, and has only a hint of compression before normalisation. That’s it.

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Never bothered using the config setting other than for getting chords. Until tonight. Played around with voice allocation and reset/unison settings in poly config. What a blast! TV on fx-duties. Just a simple arp on one track and poly config did the rest.

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some noodles from my first 9 months with A4

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Oh shit these are really nice noodlings :heart:

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Some random, krell, generative, bug music for the weirdos

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Great snippets of the A4 lovely work. Is this using the A4 internal FX?

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Thanks, yep 100% A4 stereo output and then I just added some limiting in ableton.

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New A4 jam

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Hell yeah, this is really solid stuff

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love this. my cuppa tae :coffee: :fire:

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